Summiting

No human

has ever conquered
Mother Nature
nor any aspect
of her eclectic bounty
no mountain, forest,
desert, river,
meadow, or brook
has ever been dominated
or owned
destroyed perhaps
but only temporarily

She will out last us all

millennia from now

when humanity is dust

She will remain

So

at the summit

hearing the yapping

of all these would-be

soft-serve weekend alpinists

I can only grimace

at the hubris